Eastern Partnership Facility

Project 2: Enhancing judicial reform

The
aims of this project are:

To identify the legal
and practical obstacles to the implementation of European standards
as regards judicial reform in the six countries through information
exchange, best practice sharing and hands-on experience;

To formulate
recommendations to address these obstacles and disseminate them at
the national level, with a view to adjusting national reform
policies in the judiciary field.

A series of round tables
and seminars led by the Council of Europe will identify legal and
practical obstacles to reform and create means of overcoming them
through peer-to-peer advice, exchange of best practice, and development
of specific tools, covering such issues as the role of judicial
self-governing bodies in strengthening judicial independence, the
criteria of appointment and dismissal of judges and prosecutors, the
financing of the judiciary and how to tackle the excessive length of
judicial proceedings.